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Terry Pratchett has a very good theory about this, which can be seen in a conversation between a wizard sentenced to death and Death in his book "The Last Continent". (Death being the guy who seems to have gotten stuck with Caps Lock...) It goes like this:
"Is it true that your life passes before your eyes before you die?"
YES.
"Ghastly thought, really." Rincewind shuddered. "Oh, gods, I've just had another one. Suppose I am just about to die, and this is my whole life passing in front of my eyes?"
I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING."
From dead people.
People who are very frightened have 'visions'. I don't think anyone really knows where they come from.
Have you ever read of someone who 'died' on the operating table and sort of 'dreamed' that they were in a tunnel, following a light? And maybe they came to a river, and people they knew who were dead were on the other side of the river, and the people said 'Go back! It's not your time yet!' And then they woke up?
That's called an NDE, a near-death experience. It's the same phenomenon. People also report leaving their bodies and floating up near the ceiling of the room, looking down on themselves, sometimes with doctors still desperately working on them, trying to revive them.
I have a friend who is fascinated by stories like these and reads whole books about them. She believes these people really -die- and come back, but I disagree (as gently as possible). Nobody has ever come back from 'brain death', so these people were never really dead. Our brains have incredible capabilities for imagining and 'dreaming'. I don't think we really understand them very well yet.
"Doubtless, the idea that, just before death your whole life passes in review before your eyes, has its beginnings much earlier than the nineteenth century, probably in the Christian demand that one should seek actively to settle one’s accounts before departing the world."
From the experiences of people who thought they were going to die but didn't. Often it is a life changing experience, when they are not happy/proud of what is flashing before their eyes.
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